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San Yuan Li

5.5(2)200340m0

San Yuan Li, the collaborative project by Ou Ning, Cao Fei, and the members of U-thèque Organization, is a case study of the typical “urban village” phenomenon of Guangzhou in 1990s. Armed with video cameras, the crew penetrated San Yuan Li as “city flâneurs,” presented a highly stylized portrait of the village, attempting to rethink the debt of history, to document the confrontation and reconciliation between the newly urbanization and the patriarchal-clan-based traditional community, as well as the weird architectures and cultural landscape emerging from this previously rural area. At the end, all the colored footages were eidted into a piece of black-and-white video poetry. The project was exhibited in the 50th Venice Biennale for the first time, and then screened worldwide.

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Mandarin

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalIcarus Films / dGenerate Films2 Jan 2003
  • ChinaCN

    • Theatrical2 Jan 2003

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San Yuan Li was released on 2 January 2003.

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